Why would you say that? (Serious question, just curious).
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What would hypersensitive egalitarians do without the arrogant assholes? I mean you'd have no one to give you that "outsider/underdog" perspective that people seem to think is so insightful even though it's been said roughly 5000 times a month since 1995.
What exactly is "amusing" or "telling" about the CRN blog? He just quotes a bunch of Shuttleworth's post and then summarizes a bit in between. Oh wait, the quoting of a comment, once again from the Shuttleworth's blog. I suppose that's it. Ed Moltzen, did you submit this article?
If I remember correctly, they were first incredibly confused as to what was going on. Only after checking the parking lot security cams did they notice that a certain vehicle was there during all of the accesses. Not to mention the fact that the genious wardrivers had a frigging *antenna* poking out of their car.
Neither the USA, Russia, or China are going to build a "castle" on the Moon or Mars and defend it against exploration by another country. Space exploration is usually an area where countries help each other out even if they're enemies in another regard.
I wouldn't be so sure about that. There are rumblings in the US amongst the neoconservatives and ouright shouts in PRC about the militarization of space. Plus, I don't remember much helpful advice passing betweent the US and USSR during the race for the Moon.
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That works, but is sometimes more error prone because of the larger leap involved, especially in debian-specific stuff like dpkg and debconf.
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I really don't understand you guys that are always saying things like "unstable breaks systems on a weekly basis". I have run unstable for two years now, and I only remember two instances where a bug in a package seriously affected the usability of my machine in any significant way, and even then that problem was fixed in a day, if not hours.
I think a major problem people have is not being familiar enough with the packaging system to tell the difference between a major error and a momentary glitch. Just because dpkg or apt-get quits with an error does NOT mean your machine is hosed. Often, just running the same command a second time solves the problem. No the packaging system is not perfect, but when you essentially upgrading your *distribution* (not your packages) every day (which is what you're doing with unstable or testing) I think it does a pretty damn fine job, as comparing to other distros that would simple have you do a complete reinstall instead.
The biggest hurdle in running unstable is getting up to that level. I've found that to set up an unstable system, you need to start with a very base stable install, and upgrade to testing, then to unstable, before installing X, and other larger, more complex packages. More often than not, people try to upgrade to unstable as a last resort, usually after trying out some home-rolled packages they found on the web. If you're using a bunch of unofficial packages, then *that* is the reason your upgrade gets hopelessly lost in problems. It is not the fault (usually) of unstable.
The installer may not be the simplest to use, but it is the most flexible. There are so many things you can do with Debian's installer and it's so flexible that in some ways, it is also a utility disk along with being an installer. I've used it countless times as a rescue disk for other distros, even windows.
I don't like responding your kind of post either, as you obviously DO NOT GET IT.
Censorship is not about right and wrong, it's about censorship, because "right" and "wrong" are highly divergent people. Also, the banning of such publications actually adds fuel to the anti-semetic fire in that they are actively suppressed. It makes the kooks feel more important because their efforts actually required intervention. The only way to disprove flawed ideas, bad science, etc. is to publish it and expose it to public scrutiny so it can be proprely proven to be incorrect.
Another quirk, although not markup related, is how IE chooses to ignore (on a semi-random basis) the Content-type in the HTTP header. If you try to give IE text, most of the time it will render it as HTML, resulting a big ugly block of unformatted text.
It's also true that not all canadians aren't beer swilling lumberjacks, but some are. Wow, really representative huh? For one who talks so much about ignorance and media brainwashing, it sounds like you might be a little too affected by these independant news outlets (IndyMedia maybe?).
There's a little more to it than that. Originally, Taiwan had the Chinese flag and was listed as a "Republic of China", which, as it stands, is the ISO-UN nomenclature of the country. I don't know about Xu, but many of the arguments against changing the flag was that Debian was essentially breaking a standard for political reasons (i.e. the independance of Taiwan). While many non-chinese would think that was the right course of action, the fact of the matter is that other people brought politics into something that didn't really need it. If someone wanted the flag changed, they should look into changing the standard, not changing their individual piece of software.
Oh yeah, and 'chinaman' is a little 19th century, donchathink?
Yeah, but unlike RH (and thus, I'm assuming, Fedora), you're given package selections that reflect what media you have. So if you have one CD, you're only prompted to install what's on that one CD. AFAIK, RH based distributions just allow you pick what you want without even letting you know if package foo is on the third or fourth disk, and in my experience, if you lack that third or fourth disk, the install just craps out forcing you to start over again. People bitch about Debian's installer, but for what it lacks in friendilness, it is by and far the most flexible installer out there.
Dude, realplayer has been like that for a loooong time. They practically paved the way for all the invasive crap we see today. There's no "eventually", what you're talking about has already happened, and the backlash is finally catching up to the companies. The fact that RealNetworks finally took the hint and backed off is a good thing.
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Bill CO-wrote BASIC with Paul Allen. If the list is primarily for technical expertise, Paul belongs on there more than Bill.
I've had problems with random screen corruption (that was not always alleviated with a "reset") with both Radeon and Voodoo cards while using the framebuffer.
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The "pure techies" don't go very far.
Why would you say that? (Serious question, just curious).
What would hypersensitive egalitarians do without the arrogant assholes? I mean you'd have no one to give you that "outsider/underdog" perspective that people seem to think is so insightful even though it's been said roughly 5000 times a month since 1995.
... (note that this makes them vulnerable to syn flood attacks, but at least those won't leave your system unusable until reboot!)
Um, did you happen to read the bit about syn floods when you were searching wikipedia and pretending to know what you're talking about?
Syn cookies are merely a way to make it easier to perform this attack - that is all that has been revealed about it.
and then you realize you just broke half of your vendor's maintenance scripts and administrative tools.
What exactly is "amusing" or "telling" about the CRN blog? He just quotes a bunch of Shuttleworth's post and then summarizes a bit in between. Oh wait, the quoting of a comment, once again from the Shuttleworth's blog. I suppose that's it. Ed Moltzen, did you submit this article?
If I remember correctly, they were first incredibly confused as to what was going on. Only after checking the parking lot security cams did they notice that a certain vehicle was there during all of the accesses. Not to mention the fact that the genious wardrivers had a frigging *antenna* poking out of their car.
That works, but is sometimes more error prone because of the larger leap involved, especially in debian-specific stuff like dpkg and debconf.
I really don't understand you guys that are always saying things like "unstable breaks systems on a weekly basis". I have run unstable for two years now, and I only remember two instances where a bug in a package seriously affected the usability of my machine in any significant way, and even then that problem was fixed in a day, if not hours.
I think a major problem people have is not being familiar enough with the packaging system to tell the difference between a major error and a momentary glitch. Just because dpkg or apt-get quits with an error does NOT mean your machine is hosed. Often, just running the same command a second time solves the problem. No the packaging system is not perfect, but when you essentially upgrading your *distribution* (not your packages) every day (which is what you're doing with unstable or testing) I think it does a pretty damn fine job, as comparing to other distros that would simple have you do a complete reinstall instead.
The biggest hurdle in running unstable is getting up to that level. I've found that to set up an unstable system, you need to start with a very base stable install, and upgrade to testing, then to unstable, before installing X, and other larger, more complex packages. More often than not, people try to upgrade to unstable as a last resort, usually after trying out some home-rolled packages they found on the web. If you're using a bunch of unofficial packages, then *that* is the reason your upgrade gets hopelessly lost in problems. It is not the fault (usually) of unstable.
The installer may not be the simplest to use, but it is the most flexible. There are so many things you can do with Debian's installer and it's so flexible that in some ways, it is also a utility disk along with being an installer. I've used it countless times as a rescue disk for other distros, even windows.
Except for having your machine set up to listen for external X connections at all is horribly insecure on a networked machine.
Everyone has SSH, use it.
I don't like responding your kind of post either, as you obviously DO NOT GET IT.
Censorship is not about right and wrong, it's about censorship, because "right" and "wrong" are highly divergent people. Also, the banning of such publications actually adds fuel to the anti-semetic fire in that they are actively suppressed. It makes the kooks feel more important because their efforts actually required intervention. The only way to disprove flawed ideas, bad science, etc. is to publish it and expose it to public scrutiny so it can be proprely proven to be incorrect.
Yeah, and we all know that Age of Empires is really depicting an era circa 1975.
I had a friend who got a BA in History.
He makes cabinets now.
Another quirk, although not markup related, is how IE chooses to ignore (on a semi-random basis) the Content-type in the HTTP header. If you try to give IE text, most of the time it will render it as HTML, resulting a big ugly block of unformatted text.
Funny, it appears that the "You're karma whoring!!!" posts are the more sure fire way of pleasing the mods.
That, and "I know I'm gonna get mod'ed down, but..." posts...
It's also true that not all canadians aren't beer swilling lumberjacks, but some are. Wow, really representative huh? For one who talks so much about ignorance and media brainwashing, it sounds like you might be a little too affected by these independant news outlets (IndyMedia maybe?).
Christ, you're an arrogant fuck. So we should assume that most "non-americans" can all ready french, chinese, and russian. Your point it moot.
There's a little more to it than that. Originally, Taiwan had the Chinese flag and was listed as a "Republic of China", which, as it stands, is the ISO-UN nomenclature of the country. I don't know about Xu, but many of the arguments against changing the flag was that Debian was essentially breaking a standard for political reasons (i.e. the independance of Taiwan). While many non-chinese would think that was the right course of action, the fact of the matter is that other people brought politics into something that didn't really need it. If someone wanted the flag changed, they should look into changing the standard, not changing their individual piece of software.
Oh yeah, and 'chinaman' is a little 19th century, donchathink?
Yeah, but unlike RH (and thus, I'm assuming, Fedora), you're given package selections that reflect what media you have. So if you have one CD, you're only prompted to install what's on that one CD. AFAIK, RH based distributions just allow you pick what you want without even letting you know if package foo is on the third or fourth disk, and in my experience, if you lack that third or fourth disk, the install just craps out forcing you to start over again. People bitch about Debian's installer, but for what it lacks in friendilness, it is by and far the most flexible installer out there.
Dude, realplayer has been like that for a loooong time. They practically paved the way for all the invasive crap we see today. There's no "eventually", what you're talking about has already happened, and the backlash is finally catching up to the companies. The fact that RealNetworks finally took the hint and backed off is a good thing.
Bill CO-wrote BASIC with Paul Allen. If the list is primarily for technical expertise, Paul belongs on there more than Bill.
I've had problems with random screen corruption (that was not always alleviated with a "reset") with both Radeon and Voodoo cards while using the framebuffer.
Actually quite easy. A competent person armed with a few bootdisks can take care of that root password problem in no time.